Win2k IIS5 internal access

[cynicbert]

Stuck...I have a new website that is currently online and can be accessed externally thru my firewall (sonicwall), but I cannot get to the website internally. Internal it resolves via DNS, but since the domain IP address is the external IP of the firewall, with the firewall rediecting web requests to the internal web server, the requests die there. Sonicwall says internal access to the web site can't be done this way.

Obviously I need an internal DNS change, but I haven't been able to figure that out. It is a Win2k server, running IIS and DNS and DHCP. The new domain name is not the same as the AD domain and the DNS server is not authoritative. I tried creating a new DNS entry for the external domain name, but it didn't work and I don't think I was setting it up correctly. Any suggestions? Thanx.

[jkrohn]

Well the simplest way would be to simply make entries to your lhosts files specifying any name you want to resolv to the local ip.

ie.

whereiwant.com 192.168.24.32

Then on any machine with that entry in lmhosts whareiwant.com would resolve to that IP bypassing the DNS server.

Jkrohn

[cynicbert]

Thanks, I actually tried that today and it worked, still would like to figure out how to make the DNS work, but that is jsust to learn what I was doing wrong. Thanks.